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Idrive express Review 2-2026

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Idrive is a cloud backup company that's been around a while. They seem to be the most full featured backup company with many different services and supports all platforms.  They have a service called Idrive Express: Idrive express is a service to where you can request an external hard drive to seed your data on and then send it back to them and they upload it to your account and you can save months of uploading from a very slow connection like mine is. My upload speeds are 10MBps on a good day.  Was a bit annoying at first because I had some logistical issues and I got it sorted. Shipped quick even with snow storms around.  For Linux they recommend using the perl script but I had an error and I went on the live chat and the rep told me to just use the GUI and to choose "local backup" and point to the drive.  Drive used was a Seagate Expansion 20TB and it had very fast transfer speeds almost maxing out as much as my Seagate Exos X18 16TB. Nice.  Here's a video of...

Beware of Fashion Nova

I found an item I liked. I carefully looked at the size chart. [size] was good for me, with even an inch or two for aunt flo's visit. They looked super sexy. Nice new faux leather pants for fall. Yeet! Put in the order on the 5th of sept after a decent discount, and waited a while for the tracking #. 4 days to be exact. For having “2 business days” That’s a long time. Oh well. 12th rolls by and I finally got it. Was super excited and I immediately went to try it on and it’s about 5-6 inches too small. I can juuuuust get the pants on and that’s it. No breathing room and the top part of the waistband looks different than the pic. Also was really thin elastic at the top that would cut you open if you moved wrong! To top it off both pairs have a really nasty run that goes clear across one of the legs horizontally. Ugh! For paying 40 bucks for 2 pairs I am pretty mad. I waited a long time and paid good money. I go to email them on their site and I get a response saying that they n...

Going thru some personal issues so any reviews or tests will be delayed till futher notice

Going thru some personal issues so any reviews or tests will be delayed till further notice My cat which I have valued like a daughter is going thru a lot of pain. A month and a half ago we bought some Purina cat chow naturals indoor. She seemed to like it and was doing ok till about a month-month-and-a-half ago. She started to get a lot of rashes and was very lethargic. We though it was the heat and we just kept her in cool rooms and gave her lots of tuna and water. She started to bleed from her nipple areas and started to get a bump around her breasts and her neck was really itchy and she would wake me up demanding scritches, which we thought was just more gut from being a lazy lump due to the heat and lethargy from it and we thought the bleeding and rash was a heat rash... We dressed the wounds with everything we could and tried everything we could to help her but she was getting worse. Her breast lump became larger and we deiced something else was up, I was starting to su...

Orico Q1 battery pack review

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1) Intro 2) Look and feel 3) Charging times for Various devices 4) Conclusion Intro The Orico Q1 is a very affordable 1 port Qualcomm Quick Charge USB Battery bank. It has 10,400mAhs which is enough to get you through a long time off the charger for most devices.   Look and feel The Q1 looks very stylish and has a very sturdy feel to it. It’s hefty but not too bad. It has an easy status button, 4 easy indicators of battery level, and a USB in and out port. I wish they would have included 2 ports on a pack this...

AMD denies TechpowerUp a review sample and all hell breaks loose.

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AMD denies TechpowerUp a review sample and all hell breaks loose. AMD announced thier R9 nano GPU. Of course the widely popular enthusiast site Tech Power Up wanted thier paws on a review sample so they can add it to thier ever growing list of very in-depth GPU reviews. AMD denies them the sample and now amd_roy on twitter is even gloating about how they can't by stating thier reviews as "unfair". http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-radeon-r9-nano-review-by-tpu-not.215776/ has the scoop This is sort of the deal I got with amped wireless but not as public. That company refuses to give me samples, even though I'm the one that's tested thier stuff the most thoroghly. (Note: I have removed the reviews for their stuff in the mean time till the launch of my new forums as well as to give them time to fix things with me and other reviewers.) I have attatched some tweets from amd_roy and how immature he is being and such a bad move PR for AMD A...

Aerohive AP230 review

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1)Intro 2)Features 3)Setup 4)Wireless configuration 5)Throughput tests (Wireless/Wired) 6)Closing Notes Intro: The Aerohive AP230 is a enterprise level wireless access point that is somewhat affordable for small to medium businesses, has lots of features and can tolerate a lot of heavy usage that enterprises require. Review Note: I have been provided three APs  to test the really cool roaming features. Features: The AP230 features the following: 1) Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz operation with 3 x 3 MIMO connectivity at up to 1200Mbps 2) Remote mgmt with HiveManager 3) 2 wired Gigabit LAN port (PoE/ ETH) 4) 4 3x3 mimo  x 6dBi  dual band internal antennas with 20dBm output power for great wireless coverage 5) SSIDs with configurable VLANs for each one providing more security then standard guest networks 6) Full VLAN configuration 7) Full and extremely detailed traffic shaping (QoS) and firewall controls 8) Full client connecti...

Pepwave OneAC review

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Intro Features Setup Wireless configuration Throughput tests (Wireless/Wired) Closing Notes Intro: The Pepwave OneAC is a enterprise level wireless access point that is affordable for small to medium businesses, has a standard amount of features and can tolerate a lot of heavy usage that enterprises require. Features: The Pepwave OneAC features the following: Dual band 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz operation with 2 x 2 MIMO connectivity at up to 1200Mbps 2 wired Gigabit LAN ports 2 2x2 mimo  x2dBi for 2.4Ghz and 4dBi for 5Ghz  dual band internal SMA antennas with 17dBm output power SSIDs with configurable VLANs for each one providing more security then standard guest networks Full VLAN configuration Traffic shaping (QoS) and firewall controls Client connectivity details and monitoring. Fixed and DHCP client address assignments Intrusion Protection Services And lots more Setup: Setup is very awkward and you have to manually connect with ...